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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Maximum Surge: The Completed and Canceled FMV Game– Under the Microscope: Virtual Golf– Fafling Optimizes Saturn Doom Even…
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The spotlight will shine on Mr. Bones this July, but not while surrounded by DaGoulian’s undead army — instead, it’ll be an audience cheering on a pair of speedrunners at…
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In this edition, I’m examining World Advanced Daisenryaku: Sakusen File for Saturn. It’s a sequel to Iron Storm that was released exclusively in Japan in 1996. It’s difficult to play…
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A fan has localized into English the Japan-only sequel to Sega Saturn World War II strategy game Iron Storm. Not only that, he made a patch to correct the Working…
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Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro pushed a major update today for Android, changing the way it renders graphics to improve accuracy and increase the number of games compatible on it….
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On May 9, Emerald Nova and 7Shades took the stage at MegaCon 2026 in Orlando, Fla., to share their expertise on homebrew retro game development, specifically focusing on the Sega…
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Two English activation patches were posted to SegaXtreme earlier this week that make it even easier for non-Japanese-speaking Saturn fans to enjoy the Saturn games Battle Garegga and Bubble Symphony…
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We’re back with a new issue of SHIRO! Monthly: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in April! It’s attached to this Patreon post for…
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Editor’s note: This story uses info and content from Digging for Isix, the latest video by SHIRO!’s own PandaMonium. He acquired archival footage, documents and interviews going over what led up…
Best Of Saturn
After the 1996 release of the mega-successful Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft crafted a sequel: 1997’s Saturn Bomberman Fight! For the first time in the series, the 2D levels are replaced…
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Homebrew developer Fafling’s back with a new version of his optimization patch for Saturn’s Doom port, now making some levels run at a frame rate 2½ times faster than the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Hey, didn’t I already cover this game? Yes, but I missed some things in the first article. I’m taking a mulligan. As I mentioned last time: Like Actua Golf, this…
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Editor’s note: This story uses info and content from the latest video from SHIRO!’s own PandaMonium. He got access to builds of Maximum Surge for the video Digging for Isix:…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat– Overserved, Project Neon Pre-Orders Open for Saturn, Dreamcast!– Kingdom Grand…
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If you’ve gone to our site in the last few days, you may have noticed a new tab in our menu bar: After much demand for a more permanent place…
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The Saturn MiSTer core’s most requested feature is finally here: the FPGA device’s LEDs now mimic an actual Saturn’s power and disc read lights. OK, maybe that isn’t the most…
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Two more light-gun-compatible games, Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy, have received quality-of-life patches thanks to privateye. Released patches for Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy on Saturn that :…
Best Of Saturn
In our quest to highlight Saturn fan translations this year, it’s also worth mentioning the handful of English activation patches available. Some Japanese games have English text baked right in,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Policenauts #BestOfSaturn– Prototype of Unknown, Unreleased Saturn Game ‘Pyramid’ Preserved– PandaMonium’s ‘Digging for Isix’ Premieres May 9– The…
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[Editor’s note:] After this article was published, developers at FULLSET have confirmed effort is underway to convert the existing Joengine libraries that contain SEGA code to use the open source…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The cheat sites have had codes listed for MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat since the Clinton administration. But do they have everything? I spent an unreasonable amount of time with…
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Culdcept the First’s Western publisher provided new details Thursday in an English trailer that announced release dates and open preorders for the game’s console versions. Clear River Games’ trailer says…
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Genesis, not Mega Drive. This game is 100% ‘Murican. This is a cross post of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The…
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The SHIRO! community will dust off their Arcade Racers — and accompanying securing devices — in anticipation of the upcoming Community Challenge. Starting May 1 and running the entirety of…
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My latest video is finally done. Digging for Isix: A Digital Pictures History plunges into the story of this well-known full motion video company. This project originally started as a…
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Last month, sharp-eyed Saturn fan Cerbero spotted an auction listing for a CD labeled Pyramid: Sega Saturn (3-26-97). It’s always intriguing when a build of an unreleased game surfaces. But…
Best Of Saturn
We’ve been blessed with dozens of Saturn translations over recent years, but today we give a nod to one of the trailblazers: the 2016 fan translation of Hideo Kojima’s Policenauts….
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Layer Section II– Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night– Shining Force 3 #BestOfSaturn– Multiplayer Indie…
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Sega unveiled a new initiative this morning to celebrate the anniversaries of some of its properties, including several that started life on the Saturn. Sega launched a website and a…
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The development team at FULLSET revealed gameplay images and footage of their in-progress “battle arena” game Overserved: Food Fighters this week — and announced that it’s set to release this…
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Camelot Software Planning unleashed the massively ambitious Shining Force 3 trilogy in Japan over a 12-month span starting December 1997. The trilogy comprises three SRPG “scenarios” featuring 30+ battles apiece,…
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SHIRO!’s first scheduled NetLink Night last Friday yielded a lot of fun — and a lot of chaos. At one point, nine players on nine Saturn consoles across two continents…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Mighty Hits– SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away– Sakura Wars 2 #BestOfSaturn– Saturn…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Today we’re looking at Layer Section II, also known as RayStorm. The Saturn port came out in Japan in 1997, but it wasn’t released in North America or Europe (the…
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Hi everyone! We’ve got a new perk for all paid Patreon members: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in March! It’s attached to this…